Is that a kissing movie?

And what did you make of The End Continues?

Life of Brian, too. I also love The Meaning of Life, but I recognize it's not as popular.

Plains Trains and Automobile’s

Hell yeah! Excellent road trip movie and one of the best holiday movies there is. Steve Martin and John Candy were brilliant together.

I do need to re-watch Kung pao but I was trained wrong ....as a joke.

Good list. I think the only one I'd disagree with is Mallrats. Clerks is still brilliant, but last time I put on Mallrats it didn't hit at all.

How you feel about Blazing Saddles?

The Jerk

Momma I can dance!

Some OJ got in the wine for Naked Gun, so it's more like prison wine.

World's End is also good. It has just as many details for added fun as the first two except the ending feels a bit off even though it follows the theme of Simon's character ending up with the world changed where he doesn't have to.

Ack ack!

Clue was partially ruined by its theater gag; during its original theatrical run, you'd buy a ticket, go see a ~70 minute movie that randomly had one of the three endings. It flopped. The cable/VHS edit that hastily crammed all three endings together made it longer, you got all the content there was, and...it works better on TV.

Just saw that with the score played live by a symphony.

Disqualified because of the homophobic running gag.

There’s some joke in Naked Gun that are pretty sexist (forgetting the one with OJ)

Christmas Vacation

knowing what an enormous asshole Chase was to work with has tempered my enjoyment of these but they are classic

My favorite movie.

I showed it to my mom, who worked in an office and she brought my copy in to lend to someone. I got it back around 3 months later when eventually everyone on her floor had seen it.

MAGA is one final Big Mac Attack away from that whole scenario, which I'm looking forward to.

It's one of my favourite comedies. It was even more fun watching it with my mother who grew up in the USSR. She was constantly affirming that some of the more ridiculous aspects of the movie are shockingly close to reality.

In Idiocracy, people take a crisis seriously, the state is actively looking for experts to solve the crisis, and defers to them quickly, and when evidence appears people change their minds. Finally they elect the person with the actual best plan for the future.

Idiocracy fundamentally has a wrong view of American stupidity. Idiocracy treats Americans as well-meaning but too complacent to care about the long-term consequences. It declares that society's problems are from a (genetic) lack of useful effort.

But, as the past 10 years have made increasingly hard to deny, American "stupid people" are actively hostile to reckoning with the long-term consequences of their actions. Ignorance was only ever an excuse. It's entitlement rather than complacency, and society's problems come from ('genetically smart') people deliberately bending useful effort towards societal harm for personal gain.

But while it may not have been quite as grating, Idiocracy was already wrong when it came out. Civil rights were suppressed with "ignorant" excuses that were a fig leaf on the desire to do harm. The eugenics the movie takes as a premise - that "smart people" breeding leads to a smart world and inversely for "stupid people" - is itself a form of "ignorance" about genetics that was actively being used as a fig leaf for genocide in the US in the century before.

But no, I'm sure you "just don't get" how Idiocracy is endorsing a genocidal view eugenics. It's easier to "believe" brawndo makes the plants grow.

Dang, I love office space.

I watched it recently and Eddie Murphy was throwing around a lot of gay slurs. Granted you could say the Duke's dropping a few N-Bombs could easily show to prove how much of pieces of shit they really are.

I make allowances, consider it black satire...

I tried watching ND like a year after it hit video and really had difficulty laughing at a lot of it. Kinda like Juno, it hit well having such a refreshing new style of comedy out there, but after a couple watches I could tell I liked it initially just because it was so different.

Napoleon Dynamite

"LOL They're All Autistic: The Movie"

I've seen TV censor the freaking FARTING 'ROUND THE CAMPFIRE scene, while keeping the slurs.

But also: All Mel Brooks' stuff would fit the question, imo. Not just Blazing Saddles.

Exactly! Always seems like the 'you could never make it today!' crowd is saying that the woke mob would get mad or some shit.

Do they think that Blazing Saddles isn't woke? The whole fucking movie is making fun of dumb white racists!

I wish I could find it again, but years ago I saw a video about why you couldn't make Blazing Saddles today, aside from it already existing/permission/etc. It wasn't the racism or anything, or how people today are too sensitive.

It couldn't be made today because Blazing Saddles basically destroyed the entire genre.

Prior to its release, Westerns were everywhere. They were incredibly popular, with countless movies and TV shows released every year. Then this movie comes along, points out all of the overused tropes, and reveals the formula they've all been using. The genre of Westerns has never recovered. It would be lampooning obscure content with dated references that people don't understand.

That's the real reason it couldn't be made today.

Blazing saddles is a fun and wild ride. I came in expecting nothing and got kind off for blown off my socks! This movie is so much fun.

I need to watch it again. Loved it!

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